Definition of consideration in English:

noun

At some time in the intervening period, careful consideration would have been given to the style and subject-matter of the figurehead, which would also play a crucial part in the overall design of the ship.

Even if the proposed changes were to result in a greater number of couples considering adoption, careful consideration would have to be given to the implications of allowing them to adopt.

Some of the issues raised are familiar, but some are quite new and require careful scrutiny and consideration.

No troubles in Upper Egypt are mentioned during the reign of Auletes, and if things were quiet there, we mace that it was due to the government there being in the hands of some one whom, by our broken records, we may conjecture to have been a man of great consideration and influence, Callimachus the epistrategos.

Then he went home south to Denmark, and became afterwards a man of great consideration, and many great people are descended from him.

A man of great consideration may have fifty or sixty skulls suspended in his premises.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latinconsideratio(n-), from considerare 'examine'.

Phrases

in consideration of

The 1872 Appointment was expressed to be executed in consideration of, among other things, the payment of various sums by the 4th Duke to him to enable him to discharge his debts and for other purposes.

By each assignment the assignor was expressed to assign to him in consideration of £1 rights which were defined as follows.

In any act of corruption, there is a definite ingredient of ‘misconduct’ as the act of corruption is mostly committed in consideration of personal gain or profit, and or against intended legal purposes.